Sacrificium
Sacrificium is a death metal band from Germany, the breakthrough came with the album Cold Black Piece Of Flesh and has become an important part of the metal scene. Musically they operate alongside the classic death metal and melodic passages in sections, while the lyrics reflect their personal opinions and experiences as Christians.
History
The band's roots lie in the band " Hardway ", in which Sebastian Wagner and Oliver Tesch had found. Musically it was " shallow " Pop Rock Music. That changed in 1991 when Markus Hauth got in as a guest musician on drums. from pop / rock was hard rock. As Hardway tour of Amsterdam, Holland in 1992, inter alia carried out. There they joined inter alia, in the legendary boat STEIGER 14 behind Amsterdam Central Station on. Then " Corpus Christi " and the music direction was changed in thrash metal band formed in 1993 from Hardway. Nevertheless prevailed the development direction of Death Metal, and shortly after a demo recorded in early 1994 the band name was changed to " Sacrificium ".
After several lineup changes, finally appeared in 1996 the second demo, which was accompanied by the demo Mortal Fear 1998. Despite good criticism stagnated the band, which led to the exit of the singer Roman Wagner in 2000. Although live performances were in the meantime continued to play, such as with Extol or My Darkest Hate, but this only Notbesetzungen until finally the second guitarist Claudio Enzler took over the vocals and thus the growling. For the place made vacant on bass Ulrike Uhlmann jumped.
In 2002, the label Whirlwind Records brought out very well criticized debut album of the band, Cold Black Piece of Flesh, followed by a tour with the band "brain [ faq] " followed.
After the second album Escaping the Stupor already the beginning of 2005 was supposed to appear, there were delays and a change to the Greek label Black Lotus Records, which Escaping the Stupor presented to the public end of the same year.